External Committees

The Users Committee

The Users Committee (UC) is made up of users and potential users of NRAO facilities from throughout the scientific community. It advises the Director and the Observatory staff on all aspects of Observatory activities that affect the users of the telescopes. This committee, which is appointed by the Director, meets annually.

The current membership of the NRAO Users Committee is given below. In 2014, NRAO integrated the ALMA North American Science Advisory Committee (ANASAC) as a standing subcommittee of the Users Committee. Users Committee members who also serve on the ANASAC are indicated, as are the ANASAC representatives to the international ALMA Science Advisory Committee (ASAC).

Loren Anderson, West Virginia University (2018)

Edo Berger, Harvard University (2021)

Ilse Cleeves, Harvard-Smithsonian, CfA (2021)

Christopher De Pree, Agnes Scott College (2021) CASA UC

Steven Ellingson,Virginia Tech, (2018)

Trish Henning, University of New Mexico (2019)

Jin Koda, Stony Brook University (2021) ANASAC

Shih-Ping Lai,National Tsing-Hua University (2018) ANASAC

Laurent Loinard, UNAM (2021)

Dan Marrone, University of Arizona (2019) ANASAC/ASAC

Giles Novak, Northwestern University (2020) ANASAC/ASAC

Rachel Osten, Space Telescope Science Institute (2018) ANASAC

Kate Su, University of Arizona, (2021) ANASAC

John Tobin, University of Oklahoma (2021)

Fabian Walter, Max Planck Inst für Astronomie (2019)

Stephen White, Kirtland AFB (2020) ANASAC/ASAC

Christine Wilson, McMaster University (2020) ANASAC/ASAC

For 2018, Fabian Walter is the Committee Chair, and Dan Marrone is the Committee Co-Chair.

ALMA North American Science Advisory Committee

The ANASAC provides scientific advice to the NRAO director on the science operation of ALMA and the North American ALMA Science Center, as representatives of the wider North American astronomical community.

The NRAO Visiting Committee

The NRAO Visiting Committee is appointed by the AUI Board of Trustees to review the management and research programs of the Observatory. The Visiting Committee meetings are held at alternating NRAO sites. The current membership of the Committee is: